half-headed bed

1) A bed with a wooden back of medium height, short corner posts and without a canopy.

This uncommon term waws defined by Milward as a bed with a wooden back of medium height, short corner posts and without a canopy. Her material was from Derbyshire but the word also occurred from the seventeenth century in Yorkshire: 1611 1 letle half headid bed stead, Oakwell

1670 Item one halfe headed bed one mattrice one Coverlet, Knaresborough

1675 Two halfheaded beds with furniture, Bretton Hall

1700 1 halfe headed bed and beding, Fulstone

1713 one halfe head bed and bedding, Mytholm Bridge.

dates 1611 1670 1675 1700

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